“Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.”
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“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”
“Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.”
"Of Time, and Gully Foyle", Foreword to a 1999 edition of The Stars My Destination (1956)
Context: You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
“The setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid.”
Said regarding Elementare Quantenmechanik by Max Born and Pascual Jordan, as quoted in Quantum Dialogue (1999) by Mara Beller, p. 38
“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
"Step Right Up", Small Change (1976).
Variant: The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Source: The Early Years: The Lyrics, 1971-1983
“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”
Book II, Ch. 12
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Variant: There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell